skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just for software folks, I've known folks of all walks of life who sought escape through woodworking. My dad the jeweler, lawyers, doctors, IRS folks, and of course engineers and software folks.
> What a painful and unpleasant conversation this is turning out to be.

Finally, something we both agree on
I feel like Remix is rising pretty fast. The death of create-react-app has pushed people to frameworks and Next (while loudly marketed by Vercel) feels overweight and underpolished for people who just want something that focuses on the most common use cases with minimal setup / fiddling where remix shines.
In a past job of a fairly decent sized org (around 80 engineers, maybe 10 different active projects, a few dozen microservices, component library, template generators, and some custom CLTs) it was very useful as a way of documentation for your engineers.

I'm sure you used stuff like confluence but it was always a terrible way to search across code bases and projects to understand how they worked.

Backstage was interactive documentation. I can see what projects we have, I can click on one, see who is maintaining it, what their communication is, what their various perf/benchmark scores were. It was nice.

Apparently it's even grown beyond documentation needs from what I can tell and it provides platform tooling now.
Expenses in my area would include agents management fee , normally a % of rent - like 7 - 10 %. Local authority "rates" - typically a few $1000 . Insurance , typically a few $1000 at least. State government "land tax" depending on land valuation. Possible strata fees and levies. Bad debts Accountant fees for proper tax return for rental property - - typically $300 - $400 . New tenant assessment fees every time there is a new tenancy. Maintenance and repairs. Sinking fund for future repairs. In my area, its not unusual for a large proportion of the rent ( 50% or more ) to be consumed by all the fees and charges. Note the above does not include interest on borrowed funds. And was the quoted 1978 price typical as determined by comparison with other building for sales in 1978? As it is not know what other ( if any consideration ) was in the sale. Could have been a family transfer for example. The above does not include "risk"
The first transcontinental telegraph was a single wire that used the earth as a return conductor
Somebody who paid $1000 for having their propery back certainly didn't win. They avoided bigger loss but that's not winning.
Different area and I assume different vultures, but head on out to the east east bay in the summer and you’ll see plenty of vulture circles.
Just ask the AI to write your assembly too ;)
this is a diamond in the rough. my favorite things?

- it embeds the diagram source in the png it exports so you can edit the diagram after export
- it can generate uml diagrams
- its confluence plugin versions diagrams with the page
Readable Twitter thread - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1786717001265590576.html
Do you know what is more interesting?

Why does ai.com now point to Google Gemini?

Who really owns ai.com? Or does OpenAI or x.ai still own the domain and just redirects it to other places?
We're sitting here blaming companies, but lazy, inexperienced or insufficiently skilled developers can and should be blamed for a significant number of the issues he mentions. The state of software on the web in aggregate is generally abysmal. There's dozens of factors that could lead to apathy about quality, but if you care about UX, you could start by ensuring that what you personally produce has excellent UX, and pushing back on peers or higher-ups where what they specify for you to build is bad (and if you don't know what is good or bad, educate yourself.)
Speaking of construction, another thing that might be surprising is the “tenant improvement allowance”. If your lease is long enough (at least 5-7 years), it’s often expected that the landlord will pay to hire an architect, rip out whatever interior the previous tenant had, and build out the interior to your specs. (Up to some limit, which is the “allowance”). But again, that isn’t counted as a rent discount.

In the other direction, there’s the whole area of “net” rent (and “triple-net” rent), and the bizarre calculation for shared spaces that makes “square foot” a semi-imaginary unit.
You must investigate trees and bushes to find new cases to work on
They absolutely do on the East African savannah.
Sounds like ollama with open webui
My hard and fast rule in america is that everything aside from unions do not work in the interest of the people. The sooner this is taught to our kids, the better off they'll be from being indoctrinated from the trash on instagram/tiktok.
Very interesting. I wonder what effect this will have on microbial life in the soil?
They didn't teach it at all or you attained a degree without taking it?
Boeing Locks Out Firefighters in Seattle over Disputed Pay Rates
> I don't know if it's easily configurable in the app, though.

I just discovered it by accident the other day.

It's super easy.

See "DNS content blockers" at https://mullvad.net/de/help/using-mullvad-vpn-on-android#vpn...
We have a liaison in a similar manner, but she manages a Jira ticketing system by which we require our sales people and field techs to fully communicate issues and feature demands. The company used to give out programmer phone numbers and emails. Projects used to get completely side-tracked by programmers chasing trivial features or even entire alternative tools and getting sidetracked long-term from the primary projects. It cost the company their leadership position and a significant amount of programmer turnover. It's still an ongoing issue that our field techs and sales folks simply do not understand the field well enough to know what they're asking for.

The ticketing firewall has been a net boon and we've been able to overhaul a number of ailing backend systems, while adding features that were in demand for going on two decades. Turns out, most of the features being requested were easy to implement given the right choice of languages and architecture. We went from constant fires to downright quiet in our office. Most of the ongoing project work is aspirational and would vault us back to industry leadership, instead of the constant remedial work that was bogging us down.
The concept of prior industrial civilizations was explored in a 2018 paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748. If you exclude industry, it could be exceedingly improbable that we would find fossil evidence of such creatures unless the species existed for several million years.
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Because the software is owned by the user - it is same as buying a music or movie CD. How long would the CD work? Here a similar question to ask is how long would the Cloud Providers be available for "lifetime"? The current supported cloud providers are Hetzner, AWS Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Akamai Linode and Vultr. They all seem to be around for quite a while and so I expect product to keep working for forseeable future by which time a user can easily get the value for the price they paid for the product.

For sake of argument for "lifetime": even if some of these cloud providers go out of business the probablity of all of going out of business is low, and so software will keep on working.

I'm also expecting new cloud providers to appear over long period of time worth adding support for.
There's a problem recognizing intelligent species for what they are even if we can meet them face to face. Dolphins, crows, octopus, orangutans, ... Since they don't build civilization as we conceive it, asserting their intelligence is controversial.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/how-set-ad-blocking-our-app

"How to set up ad blocking in our app"

Dated May 27, 2021

I would guess it started with something like this: they serve DNS to prevent DNS leaks when using the VPN. They realize they can use this to block domains, just like a pihole or Cloudflare DNS. They integrate that into their VPN offering.

It's pretty logical once you think about it, but it was a surprise to me too.
> Folks didn’t jump on an airplane ... an era that stretched well into the 20th century ... largely because there were smaller travel budgets and less demand for representatives to go back to their district or state

Umm, it's because there wasn't much airline travel except for the very rich until after WWII.
That's interesting, I wonder if this accelerates evolution from environmental pressure massively.
Aren’t there certain atmospheric gases that are felt to be only likely to be present in quantity as a result of industrialization, therefore if we see the spectral signatures of those it’s a candidate planet for civilization?
Wow, that's something I had never considered. I did run into a bug with someone uploading a gif to our servers and our resize script spitting out a file per resized gif frame (base_1.png, base_2.png, ...) that I had to fix but I'd never have thought of your example. We just took the first gif frame in our case, which would have been safe from this thankfully.
The business deal was you pay rent, and when the contract ends you get out. Now you're changing the deal unilaterally and threatening to occupy somebody's property without contract and without paying, unless you're given additional payments. It's certainly not like every business deal.
Wasn't it pointing to https://x.ai just a few months ago? Interesting
Yeah, this rubs me up the wrong way. The matter will have to be very important to get me to engage. I'll enage maybe 5% of the time with contact form
Cramming a bunch of chained commands on a single line doesn't reduce clutter. In fact, it increases it.
Yes Socrates, we know, writing was a terrible idea, thanks for your input.
We've gotten way too complacent about leaving our stuff in the hands of big companies that can take away our access any time they like. Those of us who used Unity definitely learned that lesson!
Ok, now I got what you meant. I was completely amiss.
That wasn't my meaning.

We have hunting quotas, and attempt to mitigate over fishing, and so on. Yes, we aren't perfect, but we try.

My point was, if a contempary Native nation existed, had modern agriculture methods, and was able to subsist without hunting? I suspect they would self regulate as we do.
Most review videos are entertainment- and that includes accounts that focus on performance and include metrics, too. The medium makes the message. Been that way since Will it Blend?
I’ve introduced it at a company with ~3,000 engineers and it’s been quite successful, though we do not yet leverage all of its power and we do have a dedicated team to run it and build on top of it

We have a lot of in-house tooling and Backstage allows us to move big chunk of UIs into one place - it helps us keep UIs consistent, and makes it easier for everyone to find the tools we have. However with a lot of older, more mature in-house tooling it’s been a struggle to migrate to their data model, introduce their software templates etc.

For an org with ~50 engineers I’d recommend something more off-the-shelf like Cortex, Port, or OpsLevel
One of my favorite EU (or German? not sure) regulations is that every company doing business online has to have an email address they actually monitor for customer contact.

It’s often the only way to get a written answer in a reliable, persistent medium from a company. Corporate support chats are usually horrible; phone calls leave no proof in case of disputes.
RYE is referred to numerous times; I'd guess it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest#Usage

I'd read that Bletchley C/A ran classified ads looking for people who liked puzzles, etc. I'd been assuming that willingness to persevere until a problem was cracked had been a job requirement, but after reading all the marginalia in some of these newsletters I realise they were just testing for cultural fit: could you "hang with" the rest of the cryppies?

On that note, a nice morse problem: (english plaintext, only letter spacing has not been transcribed. hope I've transcribed correctly!)

a) .................
b) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
c) _._._._._._.

Lagniappe:

吾生也有涯
而知也无涯
Someone will. The potential gains are too high to ignore it.
Local authorities can be very distrustful of government types. Here's a situation where a Forest Service employee was arrested and indicted after a prescribed burn went slightly awry:

https://wildfiretoday.com/2024/04/01/93539/
Love coding train YouTube channel!

This guy is funny, knowledgeable and not full of himself (unlike others in our industry)

Learned a ton from Daniel when I was starting out
Interesting choice of unit of reference. Admiral Chester Nimitz (who gave the name to USS Nimitz) was the one to sign the Japanese surrender in WW2.
We are trialing it. Setting up VPN connections, firewall rules, automated secret rotation, API key creation for centralized external services, DNS entries for private endpoints, new team onboarding, new developer onboarding, anything time consuming repeatable task that usually takes our ops or sec teams used to deliver manually in support of the various tech teams to deliver their apps into our clusters. The various “plugins” create PR’s for the ops/sec team to double check and approve to keep the auditors happy. Servicing ~500 developers. It’s definitely a platform that needs a dedicated team though.
One drug advertisement I’ve seen on Pinterest lately says “diet and exercise can’t treat diabetes” which may be true of type 1 diabetes, but last time I checked 90% of the diabetes in the US is type 2 and diet improvements should absolutely be the first line intervention.
I wasn't able to get much use from Phi 1.5 (except for leaking Microsoft's proprietary training data).

Phi 3 is great though.
I've ran into a security issue where a serverless function had pretty large range of AWS access and a pentester was able to utilise that.
I have heard this accusation made about every election my entire life the only change.is the canidate and district. but when you look into it the numbers of voter fraud cases found have been in the low double digits. I think its an urban legend at this point.
How does this compare to scan-build, clazy etc.?
It’s an old stack. Can you suggest an alternative self hosted option?
I heard such stories about NY and other big heavily regulated markets.
Ask HN: Curate links? Where? Vote and share your curations
Do you curate links to things you find interesting or recommend? If so, where? Vote below, and feel free to drop the link to your curations!

* Flipboard

* Pinterest

* A blog

* Social media

* Bookmarking apps

* Private chat groups

* Something else?
That’s… honestly not a bad take. If we’re not paying for it then we’re the product, not the customer. Need to clarify that unions aren’t for ALL PEOPLE, just the people who pay for them
> You're right, it's "just my opinion", but that applies to everyone here.

This too is an opinion though.
If other companies can run big projects on Kubernetes, so can Google.
He is a genius.
https://www.bigandtallbike.com/zinn-the-art-of-mountain-bike...
"Even if the system app doesn't utilize much of it's permissions, it still at least won't be killed or denied from using microphone just because it's in the background or because the phone display is turned off.
And again - how do you achieve Google Assistant-like direct voice activation without system permissions? How do you get rid of Google Assistant without having a ROM that doesn't include it?"

Are you aware that the Rabbit R1 doesn't listen for voice input in the background? If it did you'd have a point and I would've brought that up, but it doesn't hence it CAN be replicated as a regular app.

All interactions on the R1 begin with a push of the PTT (push to talk button)

https://www.rabbit.tech/support/article/use-rabbit-r1

On Android, third-party apps can be set as the default assistant service, which allows them to be launched with a LPP gesture (long press power), diagonal swipe up from the sides when gesture navigation is enabled, or long press of the home button when 3-button navigation is enabled.

You are correct that enabling hotword wakeup support requires system-level access, but since that isn't a function offered by the R1 anyways, your point is moot.
> Then these simple tasks can be accelerated because you’re not blocked by syntax errors.

Until you are because these tools don't actually know syntax, and then you have no idea how to fix it, and they only know how to do things additively.
The "investors" don't like that, with its perfectly accurate negative connotations
The thing is a flat 30% used to be the "reasonable level". For an example of the "before times", here's some information about Qualcomm's BREW system:

https://www.developer.com/mobile/what-is-brew/

You needed Visual C++ (which if you could use the standard edition, looks like it would run you ~$120). $400 annual signing certificate, $1500 for the BREW Builder compiler, anywhere from $750 to $3,600 in testing and certification costs depending on what functionality your app needed, what additional testing the carriers required and how fast you wanted it done. Finally after all of that, you still needed to negotiate your pricing plan with each carrier, of which you as a developer got to keep 80% of the wholesale (not retail) price of your application.

So in sum, to start developing for phones, you needed to have between ~$2,700 and ~$5,500 in up front cash costs. Not counting the costs for phones to test on because realistically you need that today too. Then you got 80% of your wholesale price to each carrier. And while I don't have numbers for the retail markup the carriers were applying, I'd bet it was higher than 10%.

Given that, what's Apple's incentive to voluntarily go down to 15%. If 10 years from now they're fighting the same battles again and people are asking why they don't just go to a "reasonable 7.5%", what good did they do dropping the price before they absolutely had to?
Or send a letter to the legal department. Lawyer generally take complaints seriously.
> Anyone can learn the syntax of a language pretty quickly.

Agreed, I can become "dangerous" in a new language quickly but actually being good in a language takes practice and time.

> The value-add of college should be more (or at least different) than you can pick up from an O'Reilly book you buy at Barnes and Noble for $30.

And to be fair it is more and different, just not 1,000-10,000 times better (when the cost is). There is a ton of value in having a good teacher, unfortunately we pay most teachers at all levels peanuts but expect them all to be rock stars. I seriously considered teaching at one point in my life but couldn't stomach the crap they have to put up with for so little. The teaching/mentoring I've done in a professional capacity has always been incredibly rewarding.
My previous company used Cloudinary for the purpose and amazingly lot of time was saved.
I think we know, we just pretend they’re not so we don’t feel bad about being complete assholes.
Wouldn't that have come to light within the first few campaigns? It's difficult to justify spending the capital on an experiment that is never run, regardless of how wise it was to make compared to other experiments.
Looking at the comments to the Buick video, that seems to be the exception to the rule- commenters dislike it but express they like his other ones. Of course, perhaps he’s had more sponsored videos since then, but again, maybe they’re exceptions to the rule.
> I guess we're all expected to go turn on the radio in our cars if cell service drops?

That would be the first thing I would do if the power/cell service was out and the emergency sirens were going for a while.

Not too sure I agree with a mandate to require a radio to be installed in every new vehicle as there are a few reasons I can imagine someone would order a car/truck without one. Maybe they intend to immediately replace the factory system with a full on custom block thumper or a company doesn't want their employees to get any funny ideas by listening to NPR or something.
I propose that there is irony contained within the italicized part (in particular):

> Those are two topics that I have not yet addressed, so you cannot possibly have any basis for assessing my understanding or lack thereof.
Unions also don't always work in the interest of everyone they represent. For instance, they tend to be protective of older and longer working members in exchange for limiting upward mobility of younger members. Or building policies that encourage the growth of the union as an organization, despite potential costs.
I am well aware of how Android works, but you seem to have a misunderstanding about how the R1 works. Your point is invalid because of that.
It’s actually good that they are so stupid so soon. It’s nice to filter those people early than to spend time on the application to learn how stupid the organization is.
If it’s an introductory course I can see how using generated code would be harmful but I’m guessing the students can’t since they don’t have the experience needed to make a distinction between good and bad code but perhaps that’s the thing you could teach them about LLMs by having a class where they are given an “easy” problem that you might normally assign that an LLM can solve and then also a hard problem that that it will fail to do properly and let the students see the difference for themselves when they have it generate code for both. That may provide valuable insight.
Manta Ray… Unmanned Vehicles… DARPA…

Is this Metal Gear?
It's not about the radio in the car. It's about the required FCC testing, specifically radiated emissions. It's about what spectrums they check new devices at during that testing to be sure they don't interfere. If they stop checking at those frequencies because we stop making AM radios then we have the potential to loose the ability for even pre existing AM radios to work because all kinds of things will be unintentionally broadcasting in those spectrums.
Trees were most likely fell with stone axes though right?
One test of how good it is to rent in Vienna, would be, what is the vacancy rate? In my area a 3% vacancy rate is regarded as balanced market between demand and supply. Gives tennants a good choice of dwellings and promotes a level of competition and negotiation amongst property owners. I predict that once people obtain subsidised dwellings , they would be move less and or be reluctant to move. I predict that the supply of "new dwellings " privately constructed , is less than other places with the system that is implemented in Vienna does not exist. It would be interesting to see the management costs and loss of taxes experienced by the cities ownership of dwellings.
By default it offers you a few tools to better understand and manage your software landscape:

- you have all your micro services catalogues in one place, with a fairly decent data model (services are grouped into systems, they are owned by teams, they have declared dependencies on each other)

- you have documentation for each service that you can easily find

- you have a template catalogue that allows you to easily create new services. You need a full-stack app? Here, recommend option is Java + React, use this template. You need a new ML system? Here’s what you should use, click “create” and we’ll bootstrap it for you

- plus a few more, like customizable home page

If you are looking for a way to start cataloguing and standardizing services across your org, the developer portal (whether Backstage or other solution) is a good thing to have